We Don't Serve Your Kind 'Ere: The real autobiography of Nick Animal Culmer

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Up next are Cyanide Pills, a five-piece from Yorkshire who have released a whole raft of singles and three albums – the most recent being 2017’s Sliced And Diced, which made No 6 in Vive Le Rock magazine’s end-of-year album poll.

Nick: It’s funny because we’re doing Punk Rock Bowling this year, and they put us in this smaller venue, than we’ve done it before in Vegas, and as soon as they put it out it sold out. It’s just Nick in my book, and you’ll read in there that I really didn’t like ‘Animal’, right from the first.Then we sort of parted ways, Lemmy and I, it was only later on – a few years ago – when we toured with Motorhead, we actually sat down and sort of reminisced about the old days going up to London, you know, going playing with the band. I read Viva La Rock Magazine recently, and I saw your name splattered all over these gig festival line-ups celebrating the 40th anniversary and everything.

He was rushed to hospital and following the assault, and following two surgeries had all the glass removed from his face and neck. On 26 October, the band joined Angelic Upstarts, Sham 69 and The Damned for the academy in the UK 2006: 30th Anniversary of Punk gig at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire.Hopefully they’ll bring their whole show – more theatre than punk rock – as they wheel out classics like Joker In The Pack, Smart Alex and Viva La Revolution. The band first played at the 1980 Chaos Show at St Mark's Hall, Royal Tunbridge Wells on 31 March 1980.

Frontman and lead singer Nick Culmer, better known by his stage name Animal, of English punk group Anti-Nowhere League performs live on stage at The 1865 venue in Southampton. Biker-punks Anti-Nowhere League have done NEC before, but their appearance was cast into doubt when singer Animal was glassed in the side of the head a few weeks ago. Because, obviously, we came in when punk music came back in with its second wave – should we say – of 1980, with The Exploited and GBH and all this, the aggressive, grungy side of punk. I think they keep the kids away, but I think they put us on just to… well, you go to festivals now and you’ve gotta have all different types of music going on. I’m not the average punk rocker, but I’m somewhere like the bastard child somewhere I think, at the second generation of punk, should we say.He was just flying the flag of… I always thought that Motorhead were sort of like the punk side of metal, and that Anti-Nowhere League were the metal side of punk. He knew a lot of the [Hell’s] Angels and stuff in London, obviously a lot of the gangs I knew, we used to get on really well, Lemmy and I.

Nick: It’s funny because, as you know I came from a different [background]… I approached punk music from a different road and I can’t really say – all I know is that punk rock music did affect me. Whereas, maybe in the Led Zeppelin days, and the Yes days, you wouldn’t have got to put a record out as easily. Copies of this single were seized from indie distributor Pinnacle by the Metropolitan Police's Obscene Publication Squad shortly after release.I always say that bands are allowed to make one mistake, and that was our mistake – of losing track of where we were going. It’s got a very simple ending to it, but really I think it’s that punk rock music stopped me from a life of crime, if you know what I mean? He was rushed to hospital, where he underwent surgery twice to remove the glass from his face and neck.